Word: soule
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Culture Club whips up a smooth, seamless sound that proudly picks every pocket of pop for inspiration: reggae, soul, country and western, mainstream rock. The results are whimsical, joyous and occasionally mysterious detonations of apparently casual inspiration. Very cool, very catchy and, to borrow a favorite word of the lead singer's, never naf. "Naf' stands for out of it, rotten, done over and overdone-and not, clearly, for Culture Club, which seems, at this somewhat disjointed juncture on the hit parade, to define the very core of contemporary...
...Jeane Kirkpatrick's feelings are hurt. Poor little soul. I get the impression she could tramp over others without wincing...
...real thing, you'll take the snapshot, and make her into an object of your slavering fantasies, judging her only against Playboy's photo ideal of the perfectly formed "girl next door." Many tribal groups refuse to have their pictures taken, believing that the photographer captures the subject's soul along with the image. Fosse implies that you replace Dorothy's soul with her static image, and rebuild her personality with your own dark fantasies...
...details of that day unfold before her. She recalls everyone around her thinking that "JFK's going to pull through." Only she knew he had died, because she was Catholic and knew what the ringing church bells meant. "He's dead, the President's dead, God rest his soul," she says, forming a cross over her chest. That's before we know that it is Kennedy's death that has influenced the people we see. But it is underlying everyone's stories, even that of Carla (Heather Johnston) who is more preoccupied with the death of Marilyn Monroe...
...with most Europop bands like Trio,) Trio and Error is an enjoyable album with a lot of catchy melodies, some witty choruses, and a spare, deadpan sound. However, this album works only on that surface level, because Trio never tries to capture the depth of feeling or soul present in the rock forms they manipulate. Trio along with other European rock bands (like Flock of Seagulls, etc), is basically the abba of the '80s: they steal the style from other musical forms (i.e., New Wave minimalism) and take the inspiration and soul out of them, thus creating...